Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria

Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria (977-1 February 1018) was the Tsar of the First Bulgarian Empire from August 1015 to February 1018, succeeding Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria and preceding Presian II of Bulgaria.

Biography
Ivan Vladislav was the son of Aron, and was from the Orthodox Bulgarian House of Kometopoulos. Ivan Vladislav was the nephew of Samuel of Bulgaria, who ordered his father executed in 987. His cousin Gavril Radomir had Ivan spared, but Ivan murdered Gavril in 1015 and became the new Tsar of the First Bulgarian Empire. He tried to negotiate with Emperor Basil II of Byzantium, but when negotiations broke down, he tried to push back the Byzantine Empire. He reconstructed Bulgarian fortresses and tried to counterattack, but at the 1018 Battle of Dyrrhachium in Albania, he was killed. Shortly after his death, the empire was destroyed by Basil.